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Possession of illicit liquor - Sentence. - It is true that what should be an adequate punishment within the maximum provided for an offence is primarily for the convicting Court to decide, but that discretion should exhibit that the reasonable proportion has been maintained between the seriousness of the crime and the punishment imposed. Although no hard and fast rule can be laid down for measuring what in a particular case would be a proper sentence: yet courts are expected to observe a desirable proportion between the gravity of offence and the punishment for it. The fact that the accused was a refugee and that he had confessed his guilt were not, by themselves, extenuating circumstances and his sentence was enhanced, In convictions from manufacturing liquor contrary to law and being in possession of it, de- terrent sentences are absolutely necessary.